This is the first time Trump has not been in the lead in the GOP field in Iowa since he entered the race. Carson has tied him twice before but has never led, CBS Senior Political Editor Steve Chaggaris noted.
In its last survey, Sept.11, the Quinnipiac poll found Trump leading the Republican field with 27 percent to Carson’s 21 percent.

Marco Rubio is in third, with 13 percent, followed by Ted Cruz, who attracted 10 percent support. Rand Paul has six percent and Jeb Bush is tied with Carly Fiorina – both have five percent.

Carson’s strength in this poll lies in his appeal to women, who chose Carson over Trump, 33 – 13 percent. Among men, the two are virtually tied, with 25 percent for Carson, compared to 24 percent for Trump.

Thirty percent of likely GOP caucus goers say there is no way they’d support Trump, followed by Bush, with 21 percent who said there’s no way they’d support him.

Still, Trump is thought to have strong leadership qualities, with 80 percent, compared to Carson’s 76 percent.
And even though Bush is trailing, 76 percent of poll respondents think he has the right kind of experience to be president, topping Cruz at 70 percent, Rubio at 69 percent, Carson at 57 percent, and Trump at 56 percent.

From October 14 – 20, Quinnipiac University surveyed 574 likely Iowa Republican Caucus participants with a margin of error of +/- 4.1 percentage points. Live interviewers called land lines and cell phones.
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Second Iowa Poll in Two Days Shows Evangelicals Bolstering Ben Carson Ahead of Donald Trump

Donald J. Trump, at a campaign stop in Burlington, Iowa, on Wednesday, is in second place in a Republican presidential poll for the second time in as many days.Credit Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press
Donald J. Trump may have lost his grip on Iowa, as the second poll in two days shows the billionaire Republican presidential candidate trailing Ben Carson in the state that kicks off the nominating process.

A new Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll shows Mr. Carson with support of 28 percent of the likely participants in Iowa’s Republican caucuses, with Mr. Trump at 19 percent. In August, Mr. Trump was leading Mr. Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, 23 to 18. The poll has a margin of error of five percentage points.

Mr. Trump frequently parades his strong poll numbers as a top qualification, raising questions about how he will respond if a string of polls show his support falling. In an interview with the Fox Business Network on Thursday, he maintained that he was not worried.

“We’ll see what happens, but certainly, we have a long road to go,” he said.

Friday’s survey, which follows a poll from Quinnipiac University on Thursday that showed Mr. Carson overtaking Mr. Trump in Iowa, revealed the challenges that the real estate mogul and reality television star faces in courting evangelical Christian conservatives. Only 32 percent said they were sure that Mr. Trump is a committed Christian, while 62 percent said they found it attractive that Mr. Carson was guided by his faith.

Among the other Republican candidates, Senator Ted Cruz comes in third place at 10 percent, while everyone else remains stuck in single digits.

Mr. Carson’s recent comments suggesting that a Muslim should never be president and that the Holocaust could have been prevented if the Jewish people in Germany were armed appealed to Iowans, while Mr. Trump’s attacks on his fellow Republicans appeared to be starting to wear thin.

Mr. Trump offered his first retraction of the campaign on Thursday, apologizing on behalf of an intern who resent on Twitter an insult about Iowans eating too much corn. However, he has been working to show Iowans that religion is important to him by carrying his Bible to events and telling them how much he loves Christmas.

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"Ben Carson "had a temper so violent that he would attack other children, even his mother, Sonya Carson, at the slightest provocation." His mother worked as a maid, sometimes holding two or even three jobs to support her family. Carson, in his interview with the American Academy of Achievement, recalled trying to hit his mother over the head with a hammer because of a disagreement over what clothes he should wear. In a dispute with a classmate over a locker, he cut a three-inch gash in the other boy's head. At the age of 14, Carson nearly stabbed a friend to death because the boy had changed the radio station. He said he prayed to God to help him and started reading Proverbs to overcome this terrible temper. "

A little publicized and therefore, little known, fact about Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton is that both men make their living from extortion — shaking down U.S. businesses and corporations.

The first time I came across that stunning but little-known information was 13 years ago when I still subscribed to The New Yorker. In a profile on Rev. Jesse Jackson titled “Man of Faith” in the Oct. 22, 2001 issue of the magazine, Peter J. Boyer wrote on how Jackson had built his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition (which brought in $17 million in revenue in 2000!) by shaking down corporations, hectoring them for their “economic apartheid,” which is just another expression for “racism.” In Boyer’s words:Your right on the money there . Anyone in that group is connected to the criminal cabal of Hillary the poofter group . . Rainbow is a dead give away ,Rand Paul ended up a fake , there really is no one tey are all controlled fools and crooks , they know everything thats going on but have never said a word . UK is USA enemy linked with China. UK has neveer stopped war on anyone and the CATHOLICS HAVE TRAINED THER NEW 3rd world crusaders against the antigreen fraud .

The jews picked the fight and got more than they bargained for , in fact they started both wars for everyone else to die in . Soros blackmailed rich jews , live = pay up if not the Nazis , he even does business with them now ,have you evrr heard one jew say anything about him or take him to trial ?? You bet you havent , he is supposed to be a UK agent taking down USA and the west . The royals are the greediest people on the planet . The think tanks who came up with all these plans should be charged given they created wars of sedition for real . TYPE IN JUDEA DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY IMAGES , ITS ALL THERE . SOROS ,ROTHSCHILD , ROCKEFELLER , WARBURGS , DUPONT , W.H.O ARE ALL GUILTY OF GENOCIDE .

USA is a very weak country . armed to the teeth and legally allowed to arrrest and take over Gov they sit silently while they are abused and ruined especially the soldiers that are now nothing more than hit squads for the elite .The 1st rule of war isto define who is the enemy .

Dont you love how the west has conned the public with opinion polls where 500 -2000 people are supposed to tell you what 300 million they did not ask will do ?? Only in the WESTERN COUNTRY DO THEY END UP 51/49 IN EVRY VOTE OR THERE ABOUTS . Thats what democracy is , riged vote , bulshit lies and no public ever picking the leaders on merit or morals they are simply presented to you and all are backed by the same bankster gangster wall st mob. I think that has been the greatest con in history . The UN stated to lord monckton a yr in advance it would get rid of HARPER BECAUSE HE OPPOSED THE GREEN FRAUD and they did Abbott in Australia too . here is how they rig it and ask yourself what would a CHINESE Company called Wang want with faked election result software ?? Rigged USA Elections Exposed https://youtu.be/JEzY2tnwExs

Hmm, curious! 5 out of her top 6 donors, throughout her political career…have been banks! Surely this is an outlier, and not really a pattern though, right?

Let’s check and see! In fact, let’s check one from the republican party this time.

How about Mr. “Corporations are people!” himself? Yup, Mitt Romney! How does Mitt Romney’s donor list stack up from just the 2012 cycle?

Let’s take a look!

1) Goldman Sachs $1 million+ 2) Bank of America $1 million+

3) Morgan Stanley $920k

4) JP Morgan Chase & Co $835k

5) Wells Fargo $693k

6) Credit Suisse Group 645k

What the WHAT? All 6 top donors of Mitt Romney……were banks!? Weird, huh?

Two times has gotta be coincidence, though, right?….Let’s try a Bush! How does the donating list of ole “Dubs” compare? 1) Morgan Stanley $604k

2) Merrill Lynch $558k

3) PricewaterhouseCoopers $508k

4) UBS AG $442k

5) Goldman Sachs $396k

6) Lehman Bros $355k

Well, smack me with a tennis racket, and call me Roger Federer!

5 out of the top 6 donors were banks for him as well!. Answer me me this though: how good is a “campaign finance” law that still can’t keep banks from indirectly dominating campaign contributions….every single time? It’s a totally worthless and insulting law! Besides, the banksters know that there’s more than one way to skin a cat…

Super PACs

In fact, all the above totals we saw are chump change, compared to the real source of bribery that policitians can count on from banks and oligarchs: Super PACs! Any and all campaign finance reform or laws are totally laughable wastes of time, while things like Super PACs exist.

“I’m sorry, Watchman, super what?

Super PACs. They are a banker’s and oligarch’s best friend! Ever dreamed of being worth millions(or billions) or dollars, and wishing somehow, someway you could use huge chunks of that cash to buy off elections and politicians?

Well, dream no more, you aspiring Machiavelli!

Because with Super PACs, you can donate literally whatever you like, to whatever politician, so long as you don’t 1) give the cash directly to the candidate in question, or 2) advise them on how to spend it. That’s it! You can pay for their tour expenses, their ad campaigns, hire their speech-writers, formulate panels to craft bills for them to lobby for, or whatever you please. The only limitation is the size of your bank account!

Heck, the man donated $5 million in one fell swoop to Newt’s Super PAC, “Winning our Future”….and over $10 million dollars to him, by the end of his campaign!

$10 million dollars….in just the primaries! . The top donor to these unlimited money groups is Thomas Steyer, the billionaire environmentalist and former hedge fund executive. Steyer launched his own super PAC last year as part of an effort to elect politicians who will act to slow climate change. He has pumped $74.2 million into his own group, NextGen Climate Action, and other super PACs supporting Senate Democrats.

Steyer is approaching the $100 million given by casino oligarch Sheldon Adelson and his family in the 2012 election. This big giving is part of an emerging trend of Democratic-oriented mega-donors dominating the disclosed unlimited money scene.

Overall, mega-donors giving solely to Democratic Party groups pumped $228.4 million into super PACs, or 62 percent of the total, compared with $109.6 million for Republican mega-donors.

This is a significant change from the 2012 election. At this point in 2012, Republican mega-donors were the source of 61 percent of all contributions over $500,000. The enemies of freedom who also help fund wars for their own profit .

So if there is any truth to Credit River case and he banks use money derived from the collateralization of the states citizens via the created property IDs making the true backing for the credit not gold but the foolish people and all of their property ( that is shared with the state legal owner and "user" owner like your car or house that you gotta pay em some of the money you in fact authorized to be created in the first place for "rent" or have it confisacted, just how phony and insulting is it that these crooks get donations of money from banks that started out as credit based on the peoples signatures and gauarantee top pay that which is created from their promises? It is just paper printed from the presses. Why would the bank be owed for it? Recall that Ford said if the people knew how their money system worked their would be a revolution by morning. Same old stuff. The news reports what they do then the people make a big deal out of it as usual with the people only being reactive and still not sure where the money comes from.